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Entanglements and Ambivalences: Africa and China Encounters in Media and Culture (2025)
Book
Bao, H., & Mutibwa, D. H. (Eds.). (2025). Entanglements and Ambivalences: Africa and China Encounters in Media and Culture. Routledge

This book explores the ambivalent relationship between China and the Global South from literary, media and cultural perspectives. It underlines the rich histories and complex processes of cultural exchange, cross-cultural communication, and transcult... Read More about Entanglements and Ambivalences: Africa and China Encounters in Media and Culture.

Digital Economy Industries, the Logic of Globalisation, and the Engineered and Entangled Cultures of Production and Consumption Behind the China-Africa Nexus (2025)
Book Chapter
Mutibwa, D. (2025). Digital Economy Industries, the Logic of Globalisation, and the Engineered and Entangled Cultures of Production and Consumption Behind the China-Africa Nexus. In H. Bao, & D. Mutibwa (Eds.), Entanglements and Ambivalences: Africa and China Encounters in Media and Culture. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

This chapter discusses China-Africa relations in the development of digital economy industries within the context of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and Digital Silk Road (DSR) flagship. In doing so, the chapter explores related encounters, en... Read More about Digital Economy Industries, the Logic of Globalisation, and the Engineered and Entangled Cultures of Production and Consumption Behind the China-Africa Nexus.

Introduction: Entangled Histories and Ambivalent Feelings in Africa-China Relations (2025)
Book Chapter
Bao, H., & Mutibwa, D. (2025). Introduction: Entangled Histories and Ambivalent Feelings in Africa-China Relations. In H. Bao, & D. H. Mutibwa (Eds.), Entanglements and Ambivalences: Africa and China Encounters in Media and Culture. Routledge

Two prominent developments in global geopolitics in the twenty-first century have been the rise of Africa and China, and the growing prominence of their entangled histories and present. But these histories, and the present they have engendered, are... Read More about Introduction: Entangled Histories and Ambivalent Feelings in Africa-China Relations.

The Queer Global South: Transnational Video Activism Between China and Africa (2025)
Book Chapter
Bao, H. (2025). The Queer Global South: Transnational Video Activism Between China and Africa. In H. Bao, & D. H. Mutibwa (Eds.), Entanglements and Ambivalences: Africa and China Encounters in Media and Culture. Routledge

In this chapter, I examine grassroots cinematic connections and video activism between China and Africa by using Queer University as a case study. Through semi-structured online interviews with some Queer University organisers and participants in 202... Read More about The Queer Global South: Transnational Video Activism Between China and Africa.

Policy Review: The Digital Arts Policy (2023–2025) in the Service of the Arts Council of Ireland/An Chomhairle Ealaíon’s Making Great Art Work Strategy (2024)
Journal Article
Mutibwa, D. (in press). Policy Review: The Digital Arts Policy (2023–2025) in the Service of the Arts Council of Ireland/An Chomhairle Ealaíon’s Making Great Art Work Strategy. Irish Journal of Arts Management and Cultural Policy,

The Arts Council of Ireland/An Chomhairle Ealaíon (ACI) launched its first Digital Arts Policy (2023–2025) — abbreviated throughout this review article to DAP — in early November 2023. It did so in the capacity of a national development agency that i... Read More about Policy Review: The Digital Arts Policy (2023–2025) in the Service of the Arts Council of Ireland/An Chomhairle Ealaíon’s Making Great Art Work Strategy.

Radical Left Culture and Heritage, the Politics of Preservation and Memorialisation, and the Promise of the Metaverse (2024)
Journal Article
Mutibwa, D. H. (2024). Radical Left Culture and Heritage, the Politics of Preservation and Memorialisation, and the Promise of the Metaverse. Heritage, 7(2), 537-575. https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage7020026

Radical left culture and heritage—understood as incarnations of leftist artefacts and praxis both past and present—have taken risks in challenging hegemonic machinations often when it is unpopular to do so. To the ire of hegemons, leftist projects ac... Read More about Radical Left Culture and Heritage, the Politics of Preservation and Memorialisation, and the Promise of the Metaverse.

The (Un)Changing Political Economy of Arts, Cultural and Community Engagement, the Creative Economy and Place-Based Development during Austere Times (2022)
Journal Article
Mutibwa, D. H. (2022). The (Un)Changing Political Economy of Arts, Cultural and Community Engagement, the Creative Economy and Place-Based Development during Austere Times. Societies, 12(5), Article 135. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc12050135

This article explores arts, cultural and community engagement (ACCE) in the context of enduring austerity in England. Working with a methodically crafted synthesis of theoretical perspectives drawn from (1) the critical political economy (CPE) tradit... Read More about The (Un)Changing Political Economy of Arts, Cultural and Community Engagement, the Creative Economy and Place-Based Development during Austere Times.

Cultural Protest in Journalism, Documentary Films and the Arts: Between Protest and Professionalisation (2019)
Book
Mutibwa, D. H. (2019). Cultural Protest in Journalism, Documentary Films and the Arts: Between Protest and Professionalisation. Routledge

Cultural Protest in Journalism, Documentary Films and the Arts: Between Protest and Professionalisation entails a comprehensive account of the history and trajectory of contemporary journalistic, (documentary) film, and arts and cultural actors roote... Read More about Cultural Protest in Journalism, Documentary Films and the Arts: Between Protest and Professionalisation.

Strokes of serendipity: Community co-curation and engagement with digital heritage (2018)
Journal Article
Mutibwa, D. H., Hess, A., & Jackson, T. (2020). Strokes of serendipity: Community co-curation and engagement with digital heritage. Convergence, 26(1), 157-177. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354856518772030

This article explores the potential that community–led digital engagement with heritage holds for stimulating active citizenship through taking responsibility for shared cultural heritage and for fostering long-lasting relationships between local com... Read More about Strokes of serendipity: Community co-curation and engagement with digital heritage.